Celeste race 2026

The New Year’s Celeste race I do with friends happened today. When I sat down to practise this year I decided to just replay the game from the start, redoing all the main levels, getting all the strawberries and crystal hearts again, etc. I fully cleared¹ the A and B sides of chapters one through six and fully cleared the A side of chapter seven and then failed to find the time to do an actual practise runs for the race. Whoops. But I still managed to set a personal best for the race, which surprised me because I felt quite fatigued today during the race and didn’t feel that I was doing my best.

Even so, it was Ruby who came out on top again—managing to come in under the hour mark!—with Caoimhe³, joining for the first time, in second.

🏃	⏱️	💀	🍓
🥇Ruby	0°59′30.986″	69	1
🥈Caoimhe³	1°02′14.985″	123	1
🥉Caoimhe′	1°07′39.175″	143	0

And of course we also did a pre-run warmup race of Pico-8 Celeste.

🏃	⏱️	💀	🍓
🥇Ruby	4′50″	26	1
🥈Caoimhe′	5′28″	26	0
🥉Caoimhe³	7′42″	57	1